Section 409-G. Training of child welfare personnel

Within the amounts
  appropriated therefor, including all federal reimbursement  received  or
  to  be  received  on  account  thereof, the department shall develop and
  implement a plan for  the training of social services district and other
  authorized agency  personnel,  including  caseworkers  involved  in  the
  provision  or  supervision  of preventive services, foster care services
  and adoption services.   Such training shall include  but  need  not  be
  limited to:
    1.  Permanence casework:  casework methodologies focused on activities
  designed to prevent placement in foster care or to shorten the length of
  stay  in  care  for those children who can be returned home or freed for
  adoption;
    2.  Development of skills to facilitate rehabilitation or  restoration
  of the family unit;
    3.    Development  of knowledge and skills in legally freeing children
  for adoption and providing adoption services;
    4.  Development of knowledge and skills to prepare for court processes
  necessary in foster care and adoption; and
    5.   Development of case  management  skills  including  planning  for
  permanence for each child.